Railway GK Questions 2026

The centre is being established by the ICMR under the Department of Health Research in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, and the announcement describes it as the first dedicated centre of the ICMR for high-altitude medicine and public health research.

The Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has said that the centre will come up at Keylong in the Lahaul and Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh, and that the Union Health Minister will lay its foundation stone there.

Shortly before the public function in Chennai, the Prime Minister went to the Brain Research Centre at IIT Madras and said that research in this field could create many new opportunities in the field of public health.

The Prime Minister said that in 2014 metro trains ran in only five cities of the country, whereas metro services are today operated in twenty-five cities, and that the network itself has grown from roughly two hundred fifty kilometres in that year to more than one thousand one hundred kilometres…

The Prime Minister said the Union Government has recently decided to build this port into a world-class mega container and green energy hub with an investment of about seventeen thousand crore rupees, and that once the work is finished even ultra-large container vessels will be able to reach it, helping…

The Prime Minister addressed a public function in Chennai, where completed works were opened and foundation stones laid for new ones, the whole set valued at thirteen thousand crore rupees, and where a further stretch of the Chennai Metro was dedicated to the public.

The Ministry of Defence stated that the Indian Naval Ship Sahyadri reached Vladivostok on 10 October 2026 to take part in the exercise, which has been scheduled from 13 to 18 October 2026 and begins with a harbour phase at that port before moving to coordinated activity at sea.

The Ministry of Defence says the participation of INS Sahyadri in the exercise is in keeping with this vision of the Government of India, which frames security and growth as goals to be pursued together across maritime regions rather than separately.

INDRA is the bilateral exercise between India and Russia, and in this edition the Indian Navy works with the Russian Federation Navy.

The students and teachers discussed learning, cultural exchange and the importance of building ties among young people from different parts of the country, and the meeting gave them a view of the host state’s distinctive cultural identity.

On the Uttarakhand side, the nodal institute for the delegation is Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, so the two institutions together anchor this pairing.

The delegation from Uttarakhand, for which Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University is the nodal institute, travelled to West Bengal and is being hosted there by IIT Kharagpur.

Yuva Sangam is the youth exchange carried out under that programme, and its seventh phase is being implemented by the Department of Higher Education in the Ministry of Education with the aim of strengthening national integration and building contact between young people from different regions.

After addressing the gathering and administering the pledge against drug use, the Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports led the riders out of Namo Ghat and the rally finished at that university, covering a distance of roughly 5.5 km through the city.

He was one of four medallists honoured at the cycling event in Varanasi.

The edition in Varanasi was built around that theme, which links physical fitness to the wider campaign for a drug-free generation.

The 94th edition of the weekly cycling drive was held in Varanasi, where the Union Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports led the ride.

The exercise is presented as a reaffirmation of the shared commitment of the two countries to secure, open and free seas, and the Ministry of Defence places that commitment within the Comprehensive Strategic Partnership that the two sides set out in the India-UK Vision 2035 document.

The Sea Phase of the exercise is built around complex operational drills in all three of these domains.

KONKAN is described as the yearly bilateral maritime exercise between India and the United Kingdom, held with the Royal Navy, and the current edition is being conducted in the waters off Plymouth on the British coast in a harbour phase and a sea phase.